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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
J.M. Miller, S.R. Bokwa, D.S. Macdonald, R.A. Verrall
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 996-999
Blanket Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29472
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Tritium release from 1.5 mm diameter Li2ZrO3 spheres has been examined in post-irradiation annealing tests, to support the Canadian sphere-pac breeder-blanket concept. Rapid tritium release was observed over the complete temperature range studied, 573–723 K. The tritium was recovered primarily in the tritiated water (HTO) form, except when He-1% H2 sweep gas was used and the temperature was ≥673 K. Hydrogen added to the sweep gas increased the release rate. The features of the tritium release curves from the on-line ionization chamber indicate some unexplained tritium release behaviour, not previously seen with LiA1O2 or Li2O.
